CHAPTER 20: THE END OF A HAPPY DAY

CHAPTER 20: THE END OF A HAPPY DAY

It had been a week since the bandit incident and Cecilia was back to her normal self. Xing Fu helped her deal with the incident by supporting her emotionally, reminding her that she was special in his eyes.

A ray of sunlight beamed through her opened window and shone on her face. It woke her up, and her eyes squinted from its brightness. Puzzled by how her window was opened, she went to close it, but something else caught her eyes. Something blue was glowing on the table. Curious, she walked toward it and saw that it was a blue transparent flower. Its jelly-like petals swayed side-to-side as if it was dancing. She scratched her head, felt as if she had seen this flower before, but nothing came into her mind. Mesmerized by its unique beauty, she picked it up and touched it. The petals felt soft, like silk, between her fingertips. Then she sniffed the petals and it had a sweet heavenly scent to it. She then saw an envelope on the table with her name on it. She picked it up and opened it.

“Dearest Xiao Xing. Get yourself ready and meet me outside. Bring the flower also. –Yu Xing Fu”

Curious of what it might be, she quickly got herself ready and rushed outside. There he stood, outside in front, facing her with a warm smile. She walked toward him and stopped a foot away. Her loose strands of hair covered her face, and he gave a slight chuckle. Like always, he parted her strands of hair to the side.

“You’re so anxious. You didn’t even take the time to do your hair.”

She laughed lightly.

He glanced down at the flower, “Do you like it?”

She said excitingly, “Yes. It’s beautiful and…alive!” Then she saw that he had a handkerchief in his hand. “What’s that for?”

He looked at the handkerchief and then back at her. “I want to blindfold you and take you somewhere.”

“Where?”

“It’s a surprise.”

She was going to say something, but he interrupted her. “I know what you are you thinking. You want to know what it is. If I tell you, it won’t be a surprise right?”

She let out a sigh and pursed her lips. “Fine. Blindfold me then.”

He blindfolded her. To make sure that she couldn’t see, he waved in front of her face. She didn’t react to his hand motion so he was set.

“Ok, here we go.”

He took her hand and led her. He was careful and made sure she didn’t trip on anything. Xiao Xing heard birds chirping and little critters running around. She smelled the damp of the earth and knew she was in the forest. Then she heard rushing water. It was loud and big. She was getting nervous, and at the same time, excited of what this surprise was. Finally they stopped.

“Now, I’m going to take the handkerchief off, but your eyes have to remain shut until I tell you to open, ok?”

She nodded with a tight smile.

Xing Fu took off the handkerchief and did what he told her to; her eyes were closed.

He leaned close to her ear and whispered softly, “Open your eyes.”

Her eyes slowly opened and squinted from the bright morning light. When her pupils readjusted, she saw the massive river in front of her. Then her eyes shifted down on land. Her hands covered her mouth, full of surprises of what she saw. Hundreds of transparent jelly-like flowers of different neon colors, swayed back and forth, like the one she had in her hand.

“So?” he asked.

She turned to him and with a huge smile, showing her teeth, and answered, “It’s so beautiful!” She raised the blue jelly-like flower up to his face, “So this is where you picked it from?”

“Yes.”

“How did you find this place?”

“This was the place where I found you.”

She raised a brow. “Really?”

Xing Fu nodded and pointed at a patch of red jelly-like flowers close to the shore. “Over there was where your unconscious body was.”

She slowly walked to the pile of flowers. From all of the other flowers, this pile was cluttered with one set of red flowers. She knelt down and touched it. Like the blue flower, it felt silky against her fingers.

Xing Fu stood behind her. “This area use to be an open field full of half dead grasses and plants. But somehow, when I found you, it was given a new life.”

She stood up and panned the area. Only about ten yards around them was affected, and outside of the circle was a regular forest.

“Do you think I’ve created this?”

He nodded. “I have a feeling that you did.”

“How come you’ve never told me about this place?”

“I wanted it to be a surprise…” He grabbed both of her hands, and she turned to look at him. His amber eyes gazed into hers. “Xiao Xing, I wanted to bring you here to see this magnificent area, because today marks the first year that I’ve found you.”

He let go one of his hands and dug into his sash. He pulled out two small jaded birds and handed one in the palm of her hand. “These jaded love birds were my mothers, and she handed it down to me. Before she died, she told me to give one to the woman I love and settle down with.”

He closed her fingers and she felt the outline of the jaded bird in her palm. “You’re the one that I love and want to settle down with Xiao Xing.”

She couldn’t help but smiled wider, and her face started to blush.

He continued, “Although I am not from a family of wealth nor have a title, I can give you my love in promising to take care of you, support you, and make you happy.” He held her hands nearby his chest. “Xiao Xing, let me laugh, cry, and grow old with you…” He paused for a bit from being nervous, then he asked, “Will you be my wife?”

Tears of joy fell down to her cheeks and she nodded, “Yes.”

Ecstatic by her answer, he quickly embraced her in his arms and stroked her hair. “I love you Xiao Xing…”

“I love you too Xing Fu…”

He pulled her away to gaze into her hazel eyes. She saw his eyes glistened, and a teardrop fell to his cheek. His love for her was full of deep emotions that it made her loved him even more. He was a genuine man of pure heart, who never once judged nor loved her less. This time, she raised her hand to his cheek and wiped his tear. Both laughed lightly.

He held her chin and leaned forward to kiss her on the forehead. He lowered to her nose and kissed the tip of it…and then her soft lips. She immediately felt a shot of electricity flowed through her body and it felt good. Her hands wrapped around his neck, while his hands were around her waist as they kissed. His moist tongue slid between her parted lips and danced and curled with hers. She loved the smoothness of how he moved in her mouth and the taste of his sweet honey.

He laid her down gently onto the small field of flowers and continued to passionately kiss her. His hands slipped into her hair, feeling the soft strands between his fingers. Then his lips moved down to her neck, softly kissing it, while one of his hands caressed her neck and down to her shoulder. She felt tickled from her neck and giggled. He stopped and lifted his head up to look at her, but she held his head to a still.

She whispered, “Don’t stop…”

He smiled and continued. He loved how her skin felt against his lips. They were as silky as the jelly-like flower petals, and he wanted more of it. His arms slipped behind her back and slowly pulled her collar shirt down, exposing her bare shoulders and cleavage. His kiss continued to her right shoulder, then down to her exposed chest, sucking, to taste her skin, while his hand gently squeeze one of her tendered breasts. He made his way back to her lips again and kissed her more.

Small dots of golden lights started to emit from the jelly-like petals to the surface, making it look like thousands of fireflies. Cecilia felt something very bright and opened her eyes. She was astonished of what she saw and tapped Xing Fu’s shoulder to get his attention.

“Xing Fu…” she said softly.

He was still enjoying the taste of her as he nibbled her lower lip, and answered, “Mmmm?”

“Look up…”

He opened his eyes and looked to where she was staring. The glowing dots surrounded them, floating like clouds in the air. Xing Fu got off of Cecilia and both sat up to experience this magical moment. She touched one and it dispersed, like a miniature firecracker, and then disappeared. Both giggled from the experience and she touched a couple more. As she was being amused by the small fireworks, he lightly grabbed her bottom chin and turned her head to look at him.

He softly spoke, “This place is as beautiful as you.” Both smiled and kissed again.

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They lay on the bed of flowers, her head against his chest, listening to his repetitive heartbeat, while his arm wrapped around her to feel her soft shoulder. They remained silent and adored this moment together.

“If I die first, I want some of my ashes to spread on this magical place,” Xing Fu said.

She lifted her head up and stared at him upsettingly. “Don’t say that!”

He chuckled for making her thought wrongly. “What I am trying to say is that when I die old, I want some of my ashes to spread here. I still want to spend my whole life with my wife” Then he lightly tapped her nose with his index finger and continued, “and children.”

Her hand touched his cheek and smiled, “Husband, you better grow old with me…” and leaned to kiss him on his lips again.

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That night in Cecilia’s room, she stared at the wall canvas of pictures that she drew a year ago. It had been a while since she hadn’t thought about the faceless man, Kai. He used to be in her mind, but Xing Fu had replaced him. Now that she was getting married to the man she loved, her past had come to a closure. If she ever regained her memories, she was ready to take on her emotions.

One by one, she pulled down her drawings on the wall until none was left. Her hand touched the heart necklace and felt the diamonds for the last time. She took off the necklace from her neck and placed it with her drawings. Then she picked up the items, walked to one of the big wooden chests, and placed them inside.

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Tsui Man practiced his boxing skills with the punching bag that he made until Chong Lin entered in the room.

“Brother Man, Brother Chong Kun is back.”

Tsui Man stopped boxing. It had been almost three weeks that Chong Kun left, and he was anxious to know the outcome. He walked toward Chong Lin.

“Any results?”

“Yes. There are three of them.”

Hearing that there was three surprised Tsui Man. He didn’t understand why there would be three people to track down one killer. He had to find out, so he walked out of the room with Chong Lin to meet Chong Kun and the others. In the main lobby, Chong Kun and the three guests stood patiently as they waited. Tsui Man and Chong Lin entered the lobby through the side entrance door and walked straight to Chong Kun. He patted Chong Kun’s shoulder.

“Glad that you came back safely.”

Chong Kun nodded, “I’m glad to be back Brother Man.”

Then Tsui Man glanced at the three guests and looked at them up and down. Two men and a woman, all wore black, and have small blue wine bottles that hung on their side belts.

To Tsui Man, the woman was very intriguing to look at. Her face was ivory with dark makeup-smoking color that brought out her honey eyes, and lips colored in black with a tint of red. Besides her tight clothes that showed her curves, she had strange symbols tattooed across her forehead like it was a head band. Her silver braided hair hung from one side in font, and she wore black gloves, which puzzled Tsui Man of why she would wear them in the middle of a hot summer.

As for the other two, one wore a black cloak that covered most of his body, unknown if he was hiding some kind of weapon inside. His hair combed up into a high ponytail, and had a black leather hair piece to secure it. His eyebrows were thick and hid his small and slanted eyes, like he was hiding his soul for one to not see.   

The other man looked more sophisticated than the other two. His hair was combed nicely back into a half ponytail, and it was down to his waist. He wore a black robe and on his black sash, was a secured, long jaded flue made out of the purest green. The only thing that was unique about him was his facial complexion. The man’s skin was white as snow and has grey eyes that looked like a glistening jewel.

Chong Kun introduced Tsui Man and Chong Lin to them. “Brothers, these are the people that are going to help us find the killer.” His hand directed to the woman, “She is Venomous Vixen, a witch known to kill with numerous of poisons. She is infamous for her Black Death Palm technique.” He directed to the cloaked man, “He is Navigator Xu, a tracker, and is known for his infamous invisible daggers that can pierce through five people in one strike,” and then to the flute man, “He is Du Yu Sheng, known to kill with his flute’s hidden blade and deadly melodies.”

The three guests folded their hands in front, “Greetings Tsui Man.”

Du Yu Sheng commented, “We’ve heard a lot about you in the underground world. You’re well known as the Unbeatable Tiger Tsui Man.”

Venomous Vixen added, “We are honored to finally meet you.”

Proud of his name being well known in the underground world, he laughed heartily. It was true what Du Yu Sheng said. He was unbeatable. Some had tried to kill him using their internal qi and spells, but lost. With the pendant, advanced weapons, and skill tactics, he thought the people of Mortal Realm could not defeat him.

“So what is your price for tracking the killer?” Tsui Man asked them.

Navigator Xu replied, “We don’t want money. We came to ask a favor in return.”

That surprised Tsui Man and Chong Lin, and they turned to Chong Kun.

Tsui Man got upset, “Brother, what hell is going on here?”

Chong Kun eye’s widened in shock. He didn’t know that the three had a hidden agenda and shook his head. “I…I didn’t know! I swear!” Upset, he pointed at the three, “YOU FOOLED ME!”

He drew his sabre sword halfway but Tsui Man stopped him.

Tsui Man spoke to the Seekers in a stern voice, “I don’t do favors. Leave.”

Du Yu Sheng scoffed, “Now we finally see the true Unbeatable Tiger Tsui Man is like. Weak like a cub. Such a disappointment!” 

Angry by his words, the Yi twins drew out their swords, but Tsui Man raised his arm to block them. “Stop!”

Chong Lin turned to Tsui Man, “Brother, he mocked you!”

Tsui Man was angry but kept calmed. He knew that the guests might be experts of martial arts and didn’t want his sworn brothers to die in their hands.

“What is the favor?” he asked.

Navigator Xu replied, “We want you to rescue our master.”

Tsui Man scoffed and looked off to the side. His hands placed on his hips as he shook his head. “This is ridiculous,” he muttered. Then he stared coldly at them, “Who the hell are you three anyway?”

“The Seekers,” answered Venomous Vixen proudly.

The Yi twins gasped in fright from hearing their identity. Their bodies started to tremble and dropped their saber swords onto the ground. Tsui Man turned to look at the twins and saw their terrifying faces.

He yelled at the Yi twins, “What the fuck is wrong with you two?!”

Chong Kun answered in his trembling voice, “Th…they are …the evil de…demon hunters…”

The evil demon hunters. His brothers had told him about them. Their internal qi became ten times powerful when absorbing demons’ essences. It reminded him of his world, when one used steroids to enhance incredible strengths. It was like an addicted drug-once used, one could not live without it. 

Tsui Man’s hands were on his hips and he raised a brow. “So let me get this straight. YOU…” He pointed to all three of them, “…want ME to rescue your master Yao Du Yi?” and burst out laughing.

The Seekers remained calm and only had wide grins on their faces as he continued, “Why the hell should I rescue him? Can’t you do that yourself?!” He pointed his finger back at him, “Look at me, I’m just an ordinary criminal, unlike you three, you guys are invincible and can do more damages. Now that is waste of talents!” and continued to laugh.

The Yi brothers looked at each other and couldn’t believe that their brother was ridiculing the Seekers. Tsui Man could have been killed by them already for his foolish behavior. They remained silent and didn’t want to stir trouble; but at the same time, worried for their brother’s life.

The Seekers glanced at each other, and Venomous Vixen nodded as a signal. All three began to charge at Tsui Man and attacked. The Yu brothers shouted at Tsui Man to watch out. Tsui Man saw the Seekers approaching fast at him.

Punch, block. Kick, block. Another punch, block.

He blocked every hit they made. Their martial arts were unimaginably full of strength, and their movements were so quick that Tsui Man couldn’t keep up with their hits and kicks. Venomous Vixen took off one of her gloves; her hand was tattooed with more symbols on it. All of a sudden, her hand turned black as night and there was a dark aura swirled around it. While Tsui Man was fighting with the other two, she flew with her open palm and struck him on the back with her infamous Black Death Palm Technique. An invisible force field on his body rippled, he staggered forward and sored from her hit, but wasn’t harmed.

Seeing that he wasn’t killed by her technique, she yelled, “STOP!”

All of them stopped from her command. She had a huge smile on her face while walking toward Tsui Man.

She spoke proudly, “It is what we expected. Undefeated because you have something that is protecting you.”  

Surprised that she knew something about him, he pretended to be clueless. “I do not know what you’re talking about!”

She smirked, knowing that he was playing dumb. “We, the Seekers, can sense it from you. But whatever it is, it’s an advantage for you to free our master.”

Advantage? Tsui Man thought about Princess Ru Lan’s pendant and wondered, what other powerful magic it possessed. Since the Yi twins were present, he didn’t want to go any further into details about the pendant.

Du Yu Sheng added, “In Mount Songgao’s Taoist sect, there is a cave called the God Cave of Light; it is where our Master is being imprisoned. No one can enter in unless they are a Celestial god, Elder, or Master of the Taoist sect. However, you can, due to what you possessed. It gives you a Celestial god aura and will confuse the light ‘god-like’ energy within the cave. We cannot rescue our master due to consuming too many demon essences and…” he paused for a second and saw that Tsui Man’s dumbfounded face. He could tell that Tsui Man was getting mused by this.

Du Yu Sheng smirked and continued, “…The Taoist sect had bounded the area within two miles radius. No mortals or fallen immortals can use their powerful internal qi or spells. For demons, they will not dare to risk their lives to enter. Only mortals who do not have what I’ve said can enter the binding restriction area. You…” then he looked down at the Yi twins, who were still kneeling, “…and your Quad Brothers Bandits can enter with ease.” Then he looked at Tsui Man again, “With your amazing skill tactics and the strange protection, you can defeat the Taoists that are guarding that place…”

From all of the information that they had told Tsui Man, he became curious of their master. From what his brothers told him, he knew that Yao Du Yi was a Celestial Prince that caused Mortal Realm to come close of extinction. But what he didn’t know was how powerful Yao Du Yi could be if he was set free. It was a risk, but his vengeance for his dead brother Peng Fei weighed more.

“Find the killer and kill him first, then I’ll help you save your master.”

Navigator Xu smirked, “Simple. Do you have any items from the killer?”

Tsui Man took out Cecilia’s jaded heart from his shirt pocket and handed it to him. “This was found at the murdered scene.”

Navigator Xu grabbed it and placed it in between his hands. He closed his eyes and concentrated on the item to feel its energy. Suddenly his middle forehead opened a third eye. It glow a white light, bright as the sun, and Tsui Man and the Yi twins watched in awe. Navigator Xu saw the image of the killer. His third eye led him to the Yu residence where she lived. She was getting measured for her wedding dress by a seamstress. He heard their conversation.

“Miss Xiao, this wedding dress will look beautiful on you.”

She smiled, “Thank you auntie, but are you sure it will be done in ten days from now?”

The seamstress chuckled, “I’m a fast sewer so don’t worry about it.”

She pursed her lips and nodded.

“Now raised your arms…”

Cecilia raised her arms as the woman continued to measure her size.

Navigator Xu’s third eye closed and he opened his eyes. Everything was back to normal.  

“So?” asked Tsui Man curiously.

Navigator Xu gave a slight laugh from what he saw. He handed the jaded heart back to Tsui Man as he spoke, “Your killer is a woman.”

That shocked Tsui Man and the Yi twins.

“WOMAN?!” said the Yi twins.

He nodded, “She is call by Miss Xiao and lives in a small home a day and a half east from here. But that is not all; she is getting married in ten days from now.”

“Well then, let’s pay a visit on her wedding day,” said Tsui Man with a big grin on his face.

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Firecrackers went off outside of Xing Fu and Cecilia’s residence, while a couple of children chased each other with sparks in their hands. Friends and close patients of the Physicians, Cecilia, and Xing Fu, came to celebrate their wedding day. The wedding wasn’t grandeur as nobles or royals, but it was perfect for the couple; small and private. There weren’t a lot of decorations-only red papers with the characters Shuangxi on the doors and in front, and a couple of red lanterns and firecrackers that hung outside of their place. Guests came inside and Physician Wei and Xing Fu greeted them.

Xing Fu pursed his lips and sighed, “I wish Physician Guo could make it for the ceremony.”

Physician Wei stroked his beard, “I know, but don’t worry. He will come after he’s done.”

Xing Fu nodded.

Physician Wei patted his shoulder, “It is almost time for the ceremony.”

Physician Wei walked to the family altar to sit down, while Xing Fu waited for her arrival. Finally Cecilia arrived with the elderly lady, wearing all red, and her face was covered with a red see through veil.  She saw Xing Fu, and he looked exceptionally handsome with the red outfit on. He had the biggest smile that made his face glowed. With the red long ribbon, both held onto the two ends, and walked down the red carpet to the family altar.

Xing Fu was nervous, yet excited for this special day. They were finally going to be husband and wife. Memories of their times shared together came into his mind. He could not believe how a year had gone by so fast, and remembered like it was only yesterday that he met her. He was blessed to have her.

As Cecilia walked down the aisle, she could see through her light veil of all the guests that came to celebrate their big day. She saw the girl that she helped saved a year ago at the clinic. The girl was taller and looked healthier. The girl smiled, showing dimples, at Cecilia as she passed, and it made Cecilia thought about her future. She hoped that her future daughter would grow tall and have cute deep dimples like the girl.

At the family altar, they drank the nuptial cup. Both made their first kowtow to the heaven and earth, they turned around and kowtow to the family ancestors and Physician Wei, and then they turned to each other and was about to kowtow when they were interrupted.

A dead man flew inside and rolled on the red carpet with his neck slit. Fresh blood trickled down from his neck and mixed with the red carpet. Everyone gasped in horror and screamed. They scattered back to where Xing Fu and Cecilia was. Cecilia took off her veil and saw the dead man. Then she looked up to see Tsui Man, Venomous Vixen, Navigator Xu, and two of Tsui Man’s men.

Tsui Man clapped his hands to sarcastically congratulate the couple. “Well well well…” then he recognized her and raised his brows. “Cecilia Lin, you’re the KILLER?” and began to laugh loudly.

Cecilia Lin? Her brows furrowed in confusion to the name he addressed her. Xing Fu saw her puzzling facial expression. He didn’t want any troubles since there were guests here, so he stood in front of Cecilia to face Tsui Man boldly.

“I am sorry sir, but there is nobody by that name. This is a private wedding ceremony so please leave.”

Angry, Tsui Man pointed at Xing Fu and shouted, “SHUT THE FUCK UP. I KNOW WHO SHE IS!” he then glared at Cecilia, “You and Kai tried to kill me before, and now…you’ve killed my sworn brother. You will pay for this!”

KAI?! Stunned by his name being mentioned, this rude man was someone that knew her true identity. Her eyes started to get teary and looked at Tsui Man.

“Who are you and who is Kai?”

He laughed sardonically, “STOP PLAYING DUMB CECILIA! I’m the one you and Kai failed to assassinate! As for Kai…” he looked at Xing Fu and scoffed, “I guess he is your ex-lover then…”

A tear dropped down to her face as she shook her head. Images of her killing the bandits and her being trained to kill were coming back into her mind.

Their guests were silent and scared. All they wanted to do was to get out but couldn’t. Tsui Man and his men had blocked the only exit.

Xing Fu held her arm to comfort her and yelled at Tsui Man, “ENOUGH!”

Physician Wei walked up to Tsui Man and his men and stood a couple of feet away from them. He directed his hand to the door and politely, yet cautiously, said, “Please, you are scaring the guests. Leave.”

“FUCK YOU OLD MAN!”

Tsui Man threw a quick jab onto Physician Wei’s face but missed. Physician Wei had already saw it coming and deflected the hit with his hand, then struck an opened palm onto Tsui Man’s left shoulder. The force was strong and it made Tsui Man staggered backwards. Cecilia and Xing Fu were surprised and didn’t know that Physician Wei could fight. Physician Wei looked at Xing Fu and Cecilia from the corner of his eyes.

“Get everyone out!”

They nodded. All of the guests started to run to the windows to escape with Cecilia and Xing Fu helped.

Tsui Man shouted, “KILL ALL OF THEM! I WANT NO SURVIVORS!” Then he stared at Cecilia, “BUT LEAVE HER. SHE’S MINE!”

Tsui Man’s men attacked, killing the guests as they tried to escape, while Physician Wei fought with Dagger Xu.

Cecilia got a few people out of the window when she felt a hard blow from the back. She staggered uncontrollably forward and accidentally pushed one of the guests onto the wall. She turned around and saw Tsui Man’s fist close to her face, and she dodged just in time. Tsui Man’s kicks were hard, making her hands stung from blocking it. He swung a hard side kick to her left shoulder, and she landed flat on the ground. He flew down to knee her on the chest, but missed, she had rolled to the side. Then she quickly swung a hard kick across his head and he rolled to the ground, shaking his head to refocus.

Xing Fu saw her and ran to help, but met a blade in front of his face. He was close to being killed by Tsui Man’s man and ducked just in time. The blade swung forward and he ducked again, ran to grab a wooden chair close by, and threw it at the man, but missed. As the man approached, Xing Fu was scared but acted fast by throwing any items he could at him. Then Xing Fu flung another wooden chair at the man. His left hand came up and knocked it to the side, but he couldn’t dodged a gold bowl of incense full of ashes that came a second later, smacked his forehead hard and bounced back. His head was coated with hot ashes, some got into eyes, and he roared in pain. While the man was distracted, Xing Fu picked up a broken wooden leg table and swung with all of his strength across the man’s head. The man dropped to the ground; he did not move. Xing Fu panted and was shaken inside. He came up to the man and kicked him on the side for one last time, to make sure he was unresponsive.

Close to the exit, Venomous Vixen struck her Black Death Palm at her victim’s chest, forcing her inner qi into him. The man’s body bowed in from the impact, his eyes bulged out and she pushed, and he literally flew ten feet away off the ground. His veins started to turn black, making his body go into a convulsion. White foams started to form out of his mouth and blood seeped through his eyes. Seconds later, the man lied motionless.

Outside on the rooftop, Du Yu Sheng watched as the guests ran out of the house. Some flew out of the window and others tumbled to the ground, desperate to escape. Du Yu Sheng lifted his jaded flute to his lips and blew the first note of a deadly melody. The guests stopped and screamed, clasped their hands over their ears, screaming in excruciating pain. The sound continued, blood spurted from their eyes and nose, their screams turned to gurgles as blood gushed out of their mouths. They writhe on the ground and went still. After that was over, Du Yu Sheng dropped to the ground and pressed a notch on the flute. The blade sprung out and he marched inside the Yu residence.

In the left corner of the parlor, Physician Wei continued to fight with Navigator Xu. Physician Wei shifted his weight on his right foot and his right hand quickly did five jabs on Navigator Xu’s sternum. Physician Wei felt the bone break, and the man fell to the ground. Physician Wei was ready to move in for the finishing kill when pain tore at his shoulder, stunning it, he looked to where at his shoulder and saw the thin blade covered in his blood, protruding. A sharp kicked onto his back sent him forward, the blade ripping his shoulder on his way out. He fell to the ground and looked at his attacker. A cold iron man, his pure white face with grey cold eyes glared at him. In the man’s right hand, he held the jaded sword flute. Physician Wei rose back on his feet and took off running to one of the bedrooms, followed behind closely was Du Yu Sheng and Venomous Vixen.

Navigator Xu saw three people hiding and they dashed to the exit door. He flung two daggers out of his hand. The first dagger went through one guest’s neck and caught the other guy in front’s middle back. The second dagger pierced his last victim through the back of his head and came out of his eye ball. All three dropped to the ground lifeless. Then Navigator Xu panned around, all guests were killed, except for Cecilia and Xing Fu. He left Tsui Man to handle the two as he followed his other partners into the bedroom.

Tsui Man jump kicked Cecilia, and she dodged it. She turned her body, aiming his neck; he shifted his weight and lowered himself, then rammed his fist into her abdomen, knocking off her feet. She landed with a thud, gasping for air, reeling in pain. She saw Xing Fu locked his arms around Tsui Man’s body, preventing him from attacking Cecilia. Tsui Man did a head butt, hitting Xing Fu’s nose. It stung him, but he didn’t let Tsui Man go. Tsui Man ran toward the wall, jumped and pushed off the wall, and they fell backwards. Xing Fu let go of him. Tsui Man leaped to his feet and began to smash his chest and stomach.

Tsui Man was ready to finish him, when, BAM! Tsui Man’s back exploded in pain. Pieces of wood flew around him. He spun around to see his other attacker and met Cecilia’s foot across his face. He was yanked out of his feet and flipped in the air, landing hard next to Xing Fu. She grabbed his shirt collar with her left hand and struck Tsui Man repeatedly in the face. Blood poured out of his nose and his broken skins. She kept hitting him with all that rage and frustration.

“YOU ASSHOLE!” Punch. “YOU FUCKEN KILLED EVERYONE!” Punch. “YOU’VE RUINED MY WEDDING!” Punch. “I’M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR THIS!”

She raised her arm for another punch, but Xing Fu wrapped his arms around her and pulled her off of Tsui Man, “He’s gone! Stop Xiao Xing.”

She stopped and panted as she stared at Tsui Man’s motionless body. Then she looked around and didn’t see Physician Wei. She heard fighting outside in the back and ran to help. When they got there, Physician Wei was already been beaten badly by the Seekers. She jumped in to help. Both fought the Seekers while Xing Fu watched on the side. Then he saw a shadow inside the house and it was Tsui Man. He held something metal and aimed at Cecilia. Xing Fu acted on instinct and ran toward her. BANG! The fight froze, and she turned to see Xing Fu right behind her. She faced him and saw his dazed look.

“Xiao Xing…”

Then he began to drop to the ground. Stunned, she tried to stop him from falling by wrapping her arm around him, but he dragged her to the ground. Her hand was warm and wet, she looked and saw blood. She shook her head in disbelief and a tear fell.

“No…”

Physician Wei turned and saw Xing Fu’s lifeless body held by Cecilia. His heart sunk and collapsed to the ground on his knees. “Xing Fu…”

She let out a heartwrenching cry. “XING FU!”

Then she saw Tsui Man inside the house with a gun and screamed in rage. Tsui Man pulled another trigger and the bullet came out, aiming at her head. Her eyes changed from hazel to grass green, and on the nape of her neck, appeared a green celtic diamond-shaped symbol. It shined so bright that Physician Wei and the Seekers behind her used their arms to shield their eyes. After the light disappeared, Tsui Man’s eyes widened in horror of what he saw next. The bullet stopped inches away from her forehead by an invisible force field. With her head nudged to the side, the bullet shot back at Tsui Man in speed of light, piercing through his right shoulder. The impact was so forcibly strong that his body flew back to the ground.

Physician Wei and the Seekers couldn’t believe their eyes. By the symbol, they knew she was not an ordinary mortal. She rose to her feet and turned around. They saw her grass green eyes, full of raging flames.

Navigator Xu’s voice shaken as he spoke. “A…goddess…”

The Seekers saw her expressionless face and knew she had only one thing in mind. To kill. The Seekers charged at her with great speed, while Physician Wei watched from the ground. Cecilia swung her right arm across, huge invisible energy came out, knocking them off of their feet, and they landed on the ground. They were stunned by her powerful energy and quickly rose to their feet. They did a hand motion with their index and middle fingers, pointed at their blue wine bottle, and directed it into their face. Black streams of cloud came out of their wine bottles and went into their noses and mouths. After they consumed it, their eyes turned pure white. All three used their demon essences to bring out their deadly techniques to attack Cecilia. Venomous Vixen was able to throw the Black Death Palm technique where a trail of black smoke formed her hand. Navigator Xu spun around and threw fifty daggers out of his cloak, all at once, in maximum speed, and Du Yu Sheng played a powerful high tune melody and a powerful wave rippled through the air.

Cecilia quickly raised both of her hands to form a protected shield against their attack. The daggers, the deadly waves, and Black Death Palm hit her shield with great forced that a huge breeze blew against her face. Her arms circled and did a circle formation, and then she thrust her arms forward with open palms at them. A huge energy bounced their weapons off the shield, making them back at the Seekers. All three dodged from their weapons by doing flips.

Cecilia then flew toward them and fought. Venomous Vixen swung her poisonous hand at her chest, but missed, Cecilia had turned to the right; however, she met Yu Du Sheng’s blade and ducked down; it missed. Then Navigator Xu’s daggers flew to aim her lower body, but it also missed. She had jumped, twisting her body in the air. While in air, her foot hit Venomous Vixen and Yu Du Sheng across their faces, forcing their bodies to flip in the air and hit the ground. Cecilia landed with one knee bent down and thrust her right open palm at Navigator Xu. An invisible energy came out of her palm, hitting his torso. He flew off the ground, spitting out blood, and landed ten more feet away from her. While the Seekers lay on the ground from being wound, their eyes turned back to normal. With her hands in clawed position, she raised her arms, and the three Seekers were lifted from the air by their throats from an invisible force, struggling to breathe.

Tsui Man watched from the window and was weakened by the knees, terrified of her powers. He rather flight than fight, knowing that he could not kill her. He quietly dashed out of the place unnoticed.

Physician Wei couldn’t stand seeing her ruthless kills anymore. With his weak voice, he cried out, “Xiao Xing…stop…this is not you…Don’t be like them!”

She heard his voice, “Physician Wei…”

Her arms dropped down, making the Seekers fell to the ground gasping for air. Her eyes turned back to hazel and the diamond-shaped symbol on the nape of her neck vanished immediately. She looked down at her hands, they were trembling, stunned by what she did.

Seeing that Cecilia was distracted, Venomous Vixen flew toward her with her Black Death Palm Technique. Physician Wei saw Venomous Vixen and shouted, “XIAO XING, IN FRONT OF YOU!”

She looked up, but it was too late, Venomous Vixen hit her on her chest with her open palm. However, her palm was stuck on Cecilia’s chest, absorbing the demon essences out from her. Scared, she front kicked Cecilia, breaking the absorption, and Cecilia flew and landed next to Physician Wei. Cecilia’s chest started to burn, feeling the poison entered into her veins as it made its way to her heart. Her breathing became irregular and she was going into a convulsion. Physician Wei quickly hit her accupoints to freeze the flow of poison before it reached to her heart. The convulsion stopped, but she was weak and couldn’t move.

The Seekers were also weak and badly injured, but they continued to approach them.

Physician Wei softly spoke to Cecilia with teary eyes. “It was great to spend this life with you. Live on Xiao Xing…”

She shook her head in disbelief of what he was going to do. She was too internally injured that she couldn’t speak; only tears flowed down her cheeks. Physician Wei placed her on the ground, while he rose up to his feet to face the three injured Seekers. As her body lay on the ground, she watched and cried as Physician Wei ran to fight with them. One strike followed by another as he injured the Seekers; but the Seekers fought back, hitting and slicing him in the front and back. She felt her breathing getting heavier…and slower…then her eyes couldn’t open to see the fight anymore. All she saw was blurriness…then everything turned dark.